Wants and fears are not gonna be ok for me. I was so used to whims! Turning them off wouldn't be right for me, I just am connected to whims. Maybe make an option button to enable and disable whims and wants and fears respectively. The image of Humiliated Sakuya has whims, that's what I want to see. I don't need to see Shion stay on the lot for 8 hours or be alone, I want whims.
I just discovered another negative sideeffect of the fears feature. The ads about the game always talk about how we are supposed to tell OUR stories. Well, they sabotage this with fears. I got a sim here who has a fear and of course I have to do something completely random to talk to another sim about the fears to get rid of it. I have to invite a sim over which is not really an option due to the hermit theme or... drumroll here... break up with a long time partner for absolute no good reason!
This is by far the dumbest feature in the game until now. Even dumber than reminding adults of prom every week or sims autonomously only relaxing during the day instead of sleeping when they are close to passing out. Unbeleafable!
Yeah, the breakup is something special. I have a fate system and the first wants which my vampire got was to break up with his soulmate. Because I don’t like weddings *specially since MWS clutter the pie menu full of stupid marriage things, self after the wedding* they normally don’t get engaged/marriage. I don’t know if he rolled this wants because they are lovers, and the game thinks is okey to break up couples which are not married.
I would say that this new feature is not for player which want to tell her own story, because they got rid of the core feature to reroll whims for free if you don’t like a whim as... *buy pet toy number 1337* and you get now punished if you ignore wants for too long.
Because we all now beta tester of this feature it will maybe improve? I don’t know, I will not play whit these things, because I play sims 4 as sandbox and don’t need Wants&Fears. I only used whims in my modded game, and there only with bienchen whims mod. As long I do not find a mod which remove fears complete, I will not use this new feature.
To be fair. Bugs are expected. But ignoring the old bugs, introducing negative features, ignoring feedback and releasing half-baked packs is what triggers me.
Always a good example is the moodlets instantly collapsing 90% of the time for no good reason. Why even collapse moodlets? There is tons of room to display them all. I actually have room for 16 moodlets but most of the time I see only 2-4. Just because. It was probably too much work to create a flexible display that respects the resolution to prevent moodlets overlapping the time controls. Or maybe just move the time controls to literally anywhere else (with user option) to display all moodlets without overlapping anything! Crazy how good the devs are at not solving these simple problems that haunt us players since release.
Dont even get me started on the CAS interface. My true nemesis.
I dont expect the devs to solve the wants/fears problem. I just dont. Not after they created this terrible new system. Not after ignoring all feedback about it. We are stuck with this nonsense now.
Seriously, guys, I cannot tell you how much I despise this new feature. The Fear of Unfulfilled Dreams thing makes me literally homicidal (Simicidal?).
I was having fun with my whim overhaul mods, but even using them updated for Wants instead of Whims... Even with that, every last one of them has a Fear of a Dead End Job, whether it makes sense in context or not (it doesn't).
This isn't "Playing with Life" or telling my own story, it's telling a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing.
I have a solve for this! I just went into options and "unclicked" the wants and fears option and my whims showed up again! phew!
@tsavogina, this must be a glitch or something for you, and I'm glad for you, but it didn't work for me.
